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An image or video taken by a computer to record the visible items displayed on the monitor, television, or another visual output device. Usually, screen capture is a software process where the image is captured as it is intended to be drawn but can also include traditional recording using a camera ...

I want to be able to search through text in my screenshots that I made. Prizmo does the OCR feature pretty well and also has an Automator action provided. Unfortunately, though, I have no idea how to ...

I'd like to have a visual indicator of multitouch finger positions as I record the iOS screen of an iPad using AirPlay.
This seems like something that would require a jailbreak. Luckily I do have my ...

I've recently bought ScreenFlow, but I noticed that the recording quality is horrible, and even worse when uploaded to Youtube.
After some research I have to the conclusion that it records using Mac ...

Along with the screenshots of my app, I'd like to include a screenshot that shows what my app delivers e.g. an SMS message (picture is just for reference):
One of the features of the app is to send ...

I started screen-casting for YouTube but stumbled upon a dilemma.
When viewing one of my videos on YouTube, the text is impossible to read because my monitor is too big. Of course there's the option ...

I was recording my screen whilst giving a presentation. Instead of stopping the recording cleanly I closed the lid of my laptop. Later, when I opened it again, the recording had stopped, but there was ...

I used to be able to set the key location under com.apple.screencapture to change the save location for the system-wide screen capture facility.
This doesn't work for me anymore -- screenshots save ...

Many times I've seen videos of people talking while presenting their slides. How is that done on a Mac?
I know that I can do a screen recording with Quicktime, and I notice there are two options New ...

After owning an iPad for a couple of years, last week I purchased my first iPhone. I've been well aware of the feature where you press the power button + Home key, and iOS will take a screenshot of ...

I am playing a game that's called Bookworm on the Mac, and it runs in full screen mode.
If I press ⇧ shift+⌘ cmd+4 to capture part of the screen, it won't work. Usually, I can press space and click ...

I am trying to draw a button in my iOS app which would look exactly like a button in camera App of the new iPad (like on this image)
Since I don't have the new iPad, I can't check it by my own. But ...

As per this marvellous screenshot on another question, is there an App available (preferably an iOS app, but a Mac OS X one might do) that will take a series of screenshots that are produced by taking ...

In Lion, Quicktime can do screen recordings. Is there a way to capture system audio also and then sync the two tracks into a movie with both system video out (The screen) and system audio out? I own ...

I'm trying to run a shell script wherein I run the screencapture command, do a couple of modifications like file renaming, moving to Dropbox, shortening the url etc and then growling the url.
Problem ...

I am using Skitch Plus to take screenshots of applications running on my Mac, and I have noticed it has an option to set the background.
What I still have to understand is when that option is used. ...

I'm wondering if there is an Apple policy against screen sharing? My basic use case is similar to the mirroring feature from iPad to Apple TV, except I'm seeking to mirror the device onto a Mac (as ...

I searched the App Store for "animated GIF" but the only returned app was one to convert a movie file into an animated GIF. I need to go the other way: I have a series of screenshots taken of an app ...

I would like to take a screenshot of an entire web page in Mobile Safari, not just the part that's visible on the screen. I'm running iOS 5 on an iPhone 4, but I'm pretty sure this functionality isn't ...